Pre-History to Mesopotamia

What signified the move to the Old Stone Age?

• People were Nomads (move place to place)

• People made stone weapons

• People started farming

• People built permanent houses

What lead to the New Stone Age?

• Farming

• Better Stones

• Hunting and Gathering

• Dry weather

Farming took place on "fertile" soil, located near what?

Society developed a "Division of Labor", meaning

• workers specialized in a particular job

• Men hunted

• everyone helped to farm

• Women farmed

Mesopotamia is between what 2 rivers

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Nile

• Taurus

The "silt" which was fertile soil led to what?

• Surplus of food

• Not enough food

• Different types of food

• Flooding

Who were the first people to build a permanent civilization?

• Sumerians

• Mesopotamians

• Egyptians

• Similarians

What separated the different Sumerian city states?

• Desert

• Walls

• Oceans

• Lakes

Ziggurats were where Sumerians worshiped what?

• Their one god

• Many gods

• The Sun

• The rivers

What was the 1st system of writing called?

• Cuneiform

• Sumerian

• Hieroglyphic

• Culinary